The only two things we can do on an individual level is reduce our meat consumption and reduce our flying. These directly impact emissions for the individual. If you stop flying the aviation companies will very quickly reduce the number of flights in response.
Anything else needs to be a systemic change by the government.
Anyone who ignores flying as a major contributor to global warming is either a Trump sympathiser or simply doesn't care about the damage flying does.
If you stop flying the aviation companies will very quickly reduce the number of flights in response.
Anything else needs to be a systemic change by the government.
Where do the jobs go?
That's smaller than I would have expected, but then I saw this the other day...
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Its 4%.
Its important, clearly a major contributor - but if that was all we were emitting we could cope with that.
Other forms of transport makes up 10%
Electric-cell technology for cars could clearly be applied to planes too one day.
Nuke China and India, reduce worlds population by over a third. Job sorted. And about as likely as getting people to stop flying...
In reality Rolls Royce and Pratt and Whitney are already doing massive R&D on hydrocarbon free engine technology.
A mate of mine was head of Health and Safety at RR, got fed up (ironically) of the travel and is now H&S Manager for JCB so think this is probably accurate information?
The only two things we can do on an individual level is reduce our meat consumption and reduce our flying. These directly impact emissions for the individual. If you stop flying the aviation companies will very quickly reduce the number of flights in response.
Anything else needs to be a systemic change by the government.